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boomer55

(592 posts)
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 10:31 PM Sep 2013

Here's something to keep you up st night

We have 104 nuke reactors in the us alone. When another carrington event happens the grid will go down and We'll have 8 to 72 hours to hook the nukes up to a power source. If not they will melt down. Now add the rest of the worlds reactors.

http://www.naturalnews.com/033564_solar_flares_nuclear_power_plants.html

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Here's something to keep you up st night (Original Post) boomer55 Sep 2013 OP
Nuclear Power: a distaster from beginning to end. eom 99th_Monkey Sep 2013 #1
"Natural News" is a sensationalist woo site. ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2013 #2
Natural news is a horrible woo woo site. longship Sep 2013 #3

ProudToBeBlueInRhody

(16,399 posts)
2. "Natural News" is a sensationalist woo site.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 10:40 PM
Sep 2013

There are absolute concerns about what a major solar flare storm could do to society in general given our dependance on electricity in general. But Mike "Health Ranger" Adams isn't doing himself or you any favors by playing Michael Creighton at the end of all his articles.

longship

(40,416 posts)
3. Natural news is a horrible woo woo site.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 10:50 PM
Sep 2013

I don't like nuke energy anymore than anybody. But that site is rubbish. I would not believe anything they print.

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